Remus and the moon

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No: HPFGUIDX 22277

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "marshamoon" <marshamoon at g...> wrote:
> Amy Z. wrote in reply to the werewolf/moon posts:
>   Drat, I just found a hole, though.  Surely he doesn't turn *back* 
when 
>   the moon goes back under cloud cover.  If you're a werewolf, once 
the 
>   moonlight hits the earth wherever you are, you transform and 
don't 
>   recover 'til the morning.  The moon hasn't been under cloud cover 
the 
>   entire evening:  "the moon drifted in and out of sight behind the 
>   shifting clouds" while timeturning Harry and Hermione were 
waiting for 
>   everyone to emerge from the Whomping Willow (PoA 21).  So Lupin 
would 
>   have transformed the first time the clouds moved away, sometime 
during 
>   the Shack scene, and stayed transformed.

It certainly seems this is a plot hole.  The only rationalization I 
can think of is that he has been taking Wolfsbane Potions during the 
entire school year, and although he clearly needs to take it each 
month during the full moon, perhaps there is some residual effect 
from having had so much recently, and he transforms somewhat more 
slowly until he's been off it for a few months...

--Barb

(wanting to give JKR the benefit of the doubt...)